From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: replace list of fixed PHYs with static array
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:51:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aV1LiYIK9WxBN5qo@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e14f6119-9bf9-4e9d-8e14-a8cb884cbd5c@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 05:56:26PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Due to max 32 PHY addresses being available per mii bus, using a list
> can't support more fixed PHY's. And there's no known use case for as
> much as 32 fixed PHY's on a system. 8 should be plenty of fixed PHY's,
> so use an array of that size instead of a list. This allows to
> significantly reduce the code size and complexity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Thanks!
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-06 16:56 [PATCH net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: replace list of fixed PHYs with static array Heiner Kallweit
2026-01-06 17:51 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2026-01-09 2:11 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-01-09 11:00 ` Heiner Kallweit
2026-01-09 14:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-01-09 15:10 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-01-09 16:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
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